Robert Powell Quotes

• With the advent of Twitter and Facebook and other social networking sites, genuine privacy can only be found by renting a private villa for a holiday. Hotels are now out of the question for my wife and I.

  Robert Powell

  Holiday, Wife, Networking

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• I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick.

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  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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• It is a pity that the words "spiritual life" were ever invented, for they have caused so much confusion. For, in truth, there is only life-everyday life-which is simply what is at every moment.

  Robert Powell

  Life, Spiritual, Confusion

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• I love being on stage. I'm completely, totally relaxed. It's the only time in my life when I know where I am and what's coming next. The other Robert Powell is probably fairly melancholic. Let's just say happiness isn't my default position. There are dark parts. I'm very good at it. I frighten people sometimes.

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  Dark, Love Is, People

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• There is no teaching to compare with example.

  Robert Powell

  Wisdom, Teaching, Example

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• Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

  Robert Powell

  Life, Men, Every Man

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• The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

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  Sports, Wisdom, Boys

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• I think monogamy is a little unnatural, if I'm totally honest. You change. Things alter. It's the exception rather than the rule and I think it's exceptional to cope with it and manage it. It's hard work.

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  Hard Work, Thinking, Littles

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• There's not a human being alive I won't talk to. There's a quite simple rule. If you like somebody more than you dislike them you can have a relationship. Once you accept you like 75 per cent but 25 per cent you find irritating for this or that reason, you just have to ignore that 25 per cent.

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  Simple, Alive, Reason

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• It seems everyone in the world is now a potential member of the paparazzi. Most of the time people ask if they can take a picture with their mobiles but increasingly they don't bother to ask.

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  People, World, Members

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• A boy is naturally full of humor.

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  Wisdom, Humor, Boys

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• Part of my job is to try and seduce people. It's what I get paid for, and if people get in the way of me doing my job I can be very difficult.

  Robert Powell

  Jobs, People, Trying

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